Today & Tomorrow by Diplomatic World

Will academic education soon be obsolete because of AI? This is a hot topic stirring lots of controversy. We talked to Vincenco Ligorio, currently Dublin based Hibernia College’s  Strategic Development Director and also in charge of academic innovation. The college focuses on educating educators. He sees education in a vast transformation process. However he provides an quite optimistic outlo...

He wrote a book on AI in the courtroom 8 years ago. It is still relevant today what is a rare event in today’s fast pacing of technology advancement. Jordi Nieva-Fenoll is professor of procedural law at the University of Barcelona. In this episode of Today & Tomorrow we talk with him about risk and opportunity of using AI in legal procedures, what legislators should be aware of either when usi...

“Made in Germany” or “Habibi, come to Dubai” are known brandings of a nation. However, Nation Branding is often mistaken for marketing, but in reality it goes much deeper, says Haya Mvita, who leads this field at the Diplomatic World Institute in Brussels. It is about building long-term trust, not only in a country’s external relations, but also within the nation itself. Especially in times of glo...

Ferdi Alici and his Ouchhh studio connect AI with art and create stunning installations reaching millions of people worldwide. His approach at the nexus of arts, technology and science is that project comes first and this determines what AI tolls are needed. This approach can serve as a blueprint on how to use AI without losing control and keep mankind on the creative driver’s seat. However, the O...

What’s space got to do with it? Quiet a lot, from manufacturing new products and materials that ease our live on earth, to new models of leadership. The space industry is expanding its footprint more and more and it moves from being a heavily subsidized public space towards an flourishing business perspective. Shelli Brunswick knows it all from her long standing expertise as an executive of Space...

Eve Logunova-Parker with her US startup Evenness is paving the AI drive way towards better digital accessibility for everyone. In this episode she shares her vision with the hosts of this podcast. She also is the 2025 Laureate of the Wholistic World Innovation Trophy – The TROPHY in short – that was announced in Barcelona the evening prior to the release of this episode. Congratulations to an outs...

In this episodes the hosts Dieter Brockmeyer and Alexander Pinker discuss the impact of advanced technologies and further accelerating rapid speed of innovations on our society. Even today, more and more people feel overwhelmed by these developments. This unease will increase with the potential to destabilize everything. How can we make us more resilient either individually but also out entire soc...

Ganhuyag Chuluun Hutagt has many roles. He is cofounder and chairman of the Mongolia Economic Forum, hosted two seasons of the popular TV format The Apprentice in Mongolia. More important the former Mongolian deputy finance minister and serial entrepreneur has a clear vision of his country’s prospering future: to establish it as the Asian Switzerland. “ARD Finance Group” holds a bank he defines as...

Wesley Ellul is a Malta based global entrepreneur in the Web3 space, former actor and still produces a popular annual satiric stage show. For more than a year already her represents the Malta government on the global stage as special envoy for startup funding and investment. We talked about the strength of Silicon Valley, how to bring this spirit to Europe and to combine it with our local strength...

Email and Twitter mark the beginning of an ongoing and acceleration transformation of diplomacy. We had the honor to talk to A.R. Ghanashyam, among others  former ambassador of India to African nations who still has a strong influence, looking back at the evolution of diplomacy and about the growing influence of deep-tech without changing diplomatic values and ethics.

Carina Schuster is a renown Swiss tech journalist, podcaster, Web3 strategist and women activist who invited speak on events around the globe. She also attended this year’s World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos and shared her take aways with us on the tech trends including AI and the content blocks focusing on female careers.

The speed of technical innovations is constantly increasing and accelerates change in our societies. Already today people are feeling increasingly insecure and afraid. How can we create a resilience to make it easier for us to cope with these changes? To find the answer for that will become essential for our future. We discuss this and more with Jean-Michel Azzopardi, a global thought leader in th...

There is immense potential on the African continent, illustrated by the 2024 Laureate of the Wholistic World Innovation Trophy: Olivia Koburongo, one of the founders of Kampala based MamaOpe Medicals. There device has the potential to help solving some the continents burning health issues - and beyond.

DWI's Dieter Brockmeyer and Alexander Pinker discuss with GALTER founder Prof. Dr. Mahendra Kumar Bhandari the need of regulating the tech space. The issue is complex: On one hand you need to create a (cross borders) level playing field for all involved, on the the other too strict or detailed legislation can kill opportunities and slows down advancement. GALTER stands for Global Academy for Law a...

Start Ups are the drivers of innovation, they turn then into products that change the way we communicate, do business or spend our free time. They can do this much faster than established companies because they can focus and act much faster. Alexander Pinker and Dieter Brockmeyer discuss with the global DeepTech, Start Up expert and UN peace ambassador Prof. Dr. Ingrid Vasiliu-Feltes the roles, ho...

How can we prepare our society for the unprecedented wave of change we must expect due to accelerating technological advancement? That's the topic of "Campus", the new book by Diplomatic World's Dieter Brockmeyer, he discusses with his T&T cohosts, the innovation profiler Alexander Pinker and the digitalization expert Sanjay Sauldie. CAMPUS is available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0CX...

Education and Learning are key issues to cope with the unprecedented wave of technology driven change that will have impact on every part of our existence. We discuss learning and education models to get closer to what the final model should become in the end.

In Today & Tomorrow’s 3rd episode 3, "Carbon Catalyst" Dieter Brockmeyer and Alexander Pinker discuss with the founder of Australia based MCi Carbon and 2023 Laureate of the Wholistic World Innovation Trophy, Marcus Dawe GAICD, ways to reduce carbon emissions in the atmosphere and how to use the products created in this process for the good of the planet. The company has a down to earth approa...

We take a ride on the wave of Artificial Intelligence, what it will bring to us, regulate or not to regulate, these are only some of the issues covered in the 2nd episode auf our podcast.

We guide you to the future!